As Katie reported yesterday, Wasserman-Schultz The Obama campaign-led Democratic National Committee is attempting one of its first direct attacks on the GOP presidential candidate this week. In case you missed it, here’s the DNC marathon.”Mine vs. My“Internet ad attacking Romney:
Ignore for a moment the fact that reviewers have already declared many elements of the ad disingenuous AND FALSEHOOD. How the Obama/DNC machine distorts this particular Republican’s record is almost irrelevant at this point. It is essential to internalize the nature of this very early salvo in what I predicted would be a character-driven, issue-averse, negative re-election campaign. This is a ‘slash and burn’ chapter one, if you will. Whether he faces Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, or anyone else, this president simply cannot run on his own record, so his campaign and media partners will decide to completely destroy his opponent. (Which is not to say that the various GOP candidates haven’t done a good job of destroying themselves).
One thought about Romney, as he and Gingrich spar over who most electable: Some critics of the Massachusetts governor will suggest that he is the second coming of John Kerry – an aloof, fabulously wealthy flapper. We all remember what happened to John Kerrythey will say. And to some extent they will be right. Kerry, however, lost to the more popular incumbent Chairman A a much healthier economy than the nightmare that Obama has burdened himself with. Kerry was mercilessly branded as a frail leader and an opportunist who would say anything to get elected, yet he was approximately 100,000 Buckeye votes becoming the 44th president of the United States. Obama’s team certainly realizes this, which is why the statement “he’s a flapper” will seem almost quaint by the time the Democratic machine is done with whoever emerges as a candidate. The question for primary voters is whether Romney is less vulnerable than Gingrich, Perry or anyone else in the field.
While we’re on the subject of Ohio and nasty campaigns, well New York Times reports that the Obama campaign is “clearly abandoning“white working class voters:
For decades, Democrats have suffered steady and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But Democratic operatives’ preparations for the 2012 elections clearly demonstrate this for the first time the party will explicitly abandon the white working class. Any pretense of trying to win over a majority of the white working class was effectively discarded for cementing a center-left coalition composed on the one hand of voters who have advanced thanks to their level of education – professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists, and on the other, a significant electorate consisting of voters lower-income people who are disproportionately African American and Latino.
In 2008, candidate Obama shamefully humiliated these voters as bitter supporters. In 2012, he will end the kiss. It’s a risky strategy, especially in the tough Midwest. White working-class voters make up a significant portion of the electorate in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana and, of course, Ohio – as Obama found out last time around. Instead, Obama will try to consolidate support among wealthier liberals and racial minorities. For this coalition to be sufficient, he will have to disqualify his opponent as completely radioactive. Despite all the left whining about the negative attitude of Lee Atwater-style Republicans (they really believe their side He doesn’t play filthy enough), Obama’s team is openly preparing to conduct “strongly partisan“campaign based on”fear and loathing:”
Forget about hope and change. President Obama’s re-election campaign will be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover would mean and disgust of who the Republican candidate will turn out to be. Of course, the Obama campaign will try to make the case for his re-election by appealing to his legislative achievements, foreign policy successes and the current flurry of executive actions. But his strategists have clearly concluded that selling the president will not be enough, and the outlines of the ugly months ahead are becoming increasingly clear.
Prepare for impact; It’s going to get very unpleasant.
UPDATE – Look at Obama terrible numbers among india. Desperate times call for desperate measures:
